{"id":142236,"date":"2020-07-10T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/deputy-prime-ministry-and-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-asked-for-clearance-of-the-trenches-placed-near-the-crossing-points\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:12:32","slug":"deputy-prime-ministry-and-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-asked-for-clearance-of-the-trenches-placed-near-the-crossing-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/deputy-prime-ministry-and-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-asked-for-clearance-of-the-trenches-placed-near-the-crossing-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Prime Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked for clearance of the trenches placed near the crossing points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret \u00d6zersay\u202fasked for clearance of the trenches of portable heavy weapons that were placed near the crossing points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister \u00d6zersay indicated the dissatisfaction about the issue to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cyprus and Head of UNFICYP Elizabeth Spehar and also sent a letter to the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and asked for the trenches to be cleared away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his letter, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret \u00d6zersay pointed out that the Greek Cypriot Administration is violating the UN Security Council decisions and the military status quo while threatening the lives of the civilians by placing those trenches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the statement made by the Deputy Prime Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs it is indicated that with this attitude the Greek Cypriot Administration has put a step forward in their aim to increase the tension in the island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the statement made by the Deputy Prime Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs it is indicated that with this attitude Greek Cypriot Administration has put a step forward for their aim to increase the tension in the island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement also noted: \u201cRecently, two trenches for portable heavy weapons have been placed near Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak crossing point by the Greek Cypriot Administration. Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak crossing point is a widely-used crossing point by civilians from both sides and it has been confirmed that a similar military construction has been deployed near Mansura which is on the road to Erenk\u00f6y.\u00a0 Since the Greek Cypriot Administration is preventing us carrying our supplies to Erenk\u00f6y military area by using the pandemic excuse for four months, although it is against the Ye\u015fil\u0131rmak Agreement, their recent attitude is evaluated as their aim to gain military superiority in other areas and this issue remains under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret \u00d6zersay\u202fasked for clearance of the trenches of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}